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Was One Of The Revolution Rumor Mongers Right?

Remember the times when we couldn't go a day without someone new popping up on a message board, claiming to be a Nintendo insider and offering tantalizing hints as to what secrets the Revolution might hold? Game blog Moz La Punk revisits the comments of one such "insider" who may have been onto something.

The poster, who went by the pseudonym of "nthngsshcking", made many statements but firstly we must look at how this person ended their post, he/she wrote: "Kodak Theatre = Mushroom Kingdom!"

At the time this meant nothing but lately some lucky people in the press industry, such as IGN.com, have been recieving invitations to Nintendo's pre-E3 media briefing and included with that invitation was this brochure.

The brochure, which you can see at the link below, says "Kodak Theatre" with "Mushroom Kingdom" below it. The article says they actually refer to the presentation as "Mushroom Kingdom", but the picture's too blurry for me to tell myself.

The rest of nthngsshcking's comments are reproduced at the link. Most of them are vague, but they hint at the idea that's been going around for some time that the mysterious other Wii secret will be some new way of displaying games. He says at one point, "As a matter of fact, a video demonstration of what 'Revolution' can do circulated the internet weeks or months before E3, and then conspicuously disappeared. Such a sneaky little box! I’ll leave the rest to you!"

That would seem to refer to the Nintendo On video from last year, but he also says the system won't need any visor or helmet, which was the whole focus of the On.

You can read the rest at the link and decide for yourself. Personally, it seems like somebody just got really lucky. I seriously doubt Nintendo is planning any projection system or any other kind of weird display method that people seem to think is the other secret. And I seriously doubt that someone who would know all about the system would get their jollies teasing people on an IGN message board, especially when they'd know they wouldn't be vindicated until a half a year later. Still, that's a hell of a guess.

Link: Moz La Punk